• Businessweek, Wednesday, January 13, 2010 3:26 PM

The numbers are in, and Google's greatly-hyped Nexus One smartphone didn't sell too well during its first week on the market. That, according to mobile app analytics firm Flurry, which is predicting that Google sold just 20,000 of its Nexus One smart phone in its first week. By contrast, Apple moved 1.6 million iPhone 3GS's in one week last June, while the Motorola Droid sold 250,000 and the T-Mobile MyTouch sold 60,000 in their respective first weeks.

"For a phone that is supposed to represent the greatest threat to the iPhone, this is pretty uninspiring stuff," concludes BusinessWeek. What explains its inauspicious beginning? For one, "Google's approach was more likely to result in a long, steady climb, than a monster Apple-esque launch," according to BusinessWeek. "You can't have lines around the block, after all, for a product that is only sold online."

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